Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level

If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of the most mighty and of the most wicked must minister to our relief.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.